“Thanksgiving is a very important holiday. Ours was the first country in the world to make a national holiday to give thanks.” Linus
President Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation of Thanksgiving
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.”
Still good today!
This is a thankful holiday break from blogging big cities, but these penguins are just too cute to put off. These are the Falkland Islands’ Penguins, the King and a Gentoo breeding area. After a walk among the penguins, we had a cup of tea. This is a very British Territory. And we are very thankful to be here, but would you believe I actually miss fixing a Thanksgiving Dinner with all the pies etc.!! We’ll be at a table for 12 of us World Cruisers while we cruise the Beagle Chanel and many fjords.
Also note the fluffy baby King molting, 3rd from left, looks like an old lady with a mink stole around her shoulders. We didn’t walk down to the beach.
Around 30″ tall.
This is the day the LORD has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24